The Makola Market in the heart of Accra is a busy place crammed with stalls selling fresh produce, local food, traditional goods, fabrics, Kente clothes, accessories, and handicrafts at reasonable prices

The Artists Alliance Gallery has 3 floors of paintings, sculptures and artifacts, from traditional Ashanti drums and masks, Asafo flags with applique-work, and strip-woven Kente textiles to contemporary Ghanaian art, including the world famous figurative coffins

Famous American author and Civil Rights activist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois moved to Ghana in the 1960s to manage the creation of a new encyclopedia of the African diaspora, the Encyclopedia Africana